England batter Jacob Bethell is set to miss the Champions Trophy after sustaining a left hamstring injury* on the tour of India. Bethell missed Sunday's second ODI in Cuttack, with England captain Jos Buttler saying afterwards he was unlikely to be fit for the tournament, which starts in...
Ravindra Jadeja has credited the domestic cricket he played for his rhythm in ODIs, the first he has played since the World Cup final in 2023. In two matches, against an explosive England side, Jadeja has conceded just two boundaries in 19 overs while also picking up six...
England 304 (Root 69, Duckett 65, Jadeja 3-35) vs IndiaJoe Root and Ben Duckett led the way for England with a pair of 60s, before Liam Livingstone applied some late muscle with 41 from 32 balls. However, India's spinners, with Ravindra Jadeja to the fore, turned the screw...
India's batting coach Sitanshu Kotak confirmed his availability on the eve of the match. "Kohli is fit, yes, he is practicing with us today," Kotak said in Cuttack. "He is good to go."Kohli went on train with the squad for an hour on Saturday evening, watched by a...
Big picture: Kohli fit againCricketers. They're just like us, from having kadhi chawal for lunch to cueing up Netflix with dinner. This deeply normal kind of life may be beckoning a first-choice Indian team member as they continue on their Champions Trophy fact-finding mission.Shreyas Iyer usually plays entertainer,...
When is Champions Trophy 2025 starting?It has been a while since we had a Champions Trophy, right?Why has there been such a long gap?Since its inception in 1998, the tournament was played every two years till 2009. After that, it was moved to a four-year cycle. India were...
The Ranji Trophy 2024-25 knockouts start on Saturday with the four quarter-finals. Here's a quick primer.Fixtures
Jammu & Kashmir vs Kerala in Pune, from 9.30am ISTVidarbha vs Tamil Nadu in Nagpur, from 9.30am ISTHaryana vs Mumbai in Kolkata, from 9am ISTSaurashtra vs Gujarat in Rajkot, from 9.30am ISTHow they...
Shreyas Iyer, who scored a match-winning 36-ball 59 in the first ODI against England in Nagpur, was originally meant to sit out the match. Iyer revealed this in a post-match interview with the broadcasters.India were without Virat Kohli, who was ruled out of the match with a swollen...
Champions Trophy 2025 will have no Indian officials with two of the likeliest candidates having excused themselves from travelling to Pakistan.It is understood that Javagal Srinath, one of the most prolific ICC match referees, and Nitin Menon, part of the ICC's elite panel umpires, had "mutually agreed" with...
A three-match home Test series against Australia and a two-Test tour to India will be the highlight of West Indies men's Test fixtures for 2025. They will begin the 2025-27 World Test Championship cycle with the Test series against Australia, for the Frank Worrell Trophy, from June 25...
